topic Editing in a Server Object Extension in ArcGIS Enterprise Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/editing-in-a-server-object-extension/m-p/736325#M27965 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I know that the standard mechanism for web editing is to set up a feature service, however the issue that I have with that is that it is associated with a single transactional version (typically SDE.DEFAULT, but it can point at another version).&nbsp; I have a situation where I may have many dozens of transactional versions representing multiple potential designs, and as such hitting a single version through a feature service doesn't seem to be quite the right fit. </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I have an idea for creating a Server Object Extension (SOE) which would expose what is essentially a REST endpoint for purposes of editing on a version of the users choosing.&nbsp; The exposed SOE method might take the name of the version to apply the edit to, a feature identifier (probably a feature class name and and ObjectID), and an array of name/value pairs of how that feature should be updated.&nbsp; Similar methods might work for object creation and deletion as well. I'm wondering if anyone has tried to do something like this before or might comment as to its wisdom?&nbsp; It seems theoretically possible, but perhaps changing from one version to another in an SOE is just a really bad idea for some reason that I'm not currently aware of.&nbsp; It seems a little hacky to me.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 17 Dec 2013 14:08:06 GMT RiverTaig1 2013-12-17T14:08:06Z Editing in a Server Object Extension https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/editing-in-a-server-object-extension/m-p/736325#M27965 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I know that the standard mechanism for web editing is to set up a feature service, however the issue that I have with that is that it is associated with a single transactional version (typically SDE.DEFAULT, but it can point at another version).&nbsp; I have a situation where I may have many dozens of transactional versions representing multiple potential designs, and as such hitting a single version through a feature service doesn't seem to be quite the right fit. </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I have an idea for creating a Server Object Extension (SOE) which would expose what is essentially a REST endpoint for purposes of editing on a version of the users choosing.&nbsp; The exposed SOE method might take the name of the version to apply the edit to, a feature identifier (probably a feature class name and and ObjectID), and an array of name/value pairs of how that feature should be updated.&nbsp; Similar methods might work for object creation and deletion as well. I'm wondering if anyone has tried to do something like this before or might comment as to its wisdom?&nbsp; It seems theoretically possible, but perhaps changing from one version to another in an SOE is just a really bad idea for some reason that I'm not currently aware of.&nbsp; It seems a little hacky to me.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 17 Dec 2013 14:08:06 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/editing-in-a-server-object-extension/m-p/736325#M27965 RiverTaig1 2013-12-17T14:08:06Z Re: Editing in a Server Object Extension https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/editing-in-a-server-object-extension/m-p/736326#M27966 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>It appears that at version 10.1 you can change a version on a FeatureLayer.&nbsp; The documentation is here: </SPAN><A href="https://developers.arcgis.com/en/javascript/jsapi/featurelayer-amd.html#setgdbversion">https://developers.arcgis.com/en/javascript/jsapi/featurelayer-amd.html#setgdbversion</A><SPAN>&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Also, I found a 75 minute movie detailing editing from the ESRI Developer Conference at </SPAN><A href="http://video.arcgis.com/watch/1175/building-web-editing-applications-with-arcgis-101-for-server">http://video.arcgis.com/watch/1175/building-web-editing-applications-with-arcgis-101-for-server</A><SPAN>&nbsp; .&nbsp; The most relevant parts related to versioning is aproximately 60 minutes into the presentation (but it's all good info)</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Great documentation esri!!&nbsp; You guys rock.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 17 Dec 2013 16:08:16 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/editing-in-a-server-object-extension/m-p/736326#M27966 RiverTaig1 2013-12-17T16:08:16Z